Career
His earliest hit compositions were "Just Married" (1958), written with First Rate (at Lloyd's) Allen and recorded by Marty Robbins, which reached number twenty-six on Billboard magazine"s Hot 100 chart and number one on the Country chart. And "Dreamin"" (1960), written with Ted Ellis, recorded by Johnny Burnette, and charting at number eleven on the Hot 100. Dorsey Burnette (whom he was managing) and De Vorzon co-wrote several of Dorsey"s hits ("Hey, Little One".
"Big Rock Candy Mountain".
"Red Roses"; "Noah"s Ark"). De Vorzon founded Valiant Records in 1960.
During the 1960s he signed the Association to Valiant, and produced its first single, a cover of the Bob Dylan tune "One Too Many Mornings." De Vorzon wrote "I Wonder What She"s Doing Tonight" for the Cascades, but the group did not record lieutenant In 1963, De Vorzon recorded the song himself, with his group Barry and the Tamerlanes.
Also in 1963 he co-wrote the ballad "Shy Girl" which was recorded by the Cascades.
De Vorzon also composed the tune "lieutenant"s Christmas Once Again in Santa Barbara," which was re-recorded with various other city names, such as San Francisco and San Diego. He also wrote the "Theme from South.W.A.T.", and co-wrote the Eagles" hit "In the City" with Joe Walsh. In 1979 he wrote the music for the movie The Warriors.
He is also one of the developers of the MasterWriter creative software for songwriters and lyricists.
R. P. M. (1970) (with Perry Botkin, Junior) Dillinger (1973) Cooley High (1975) Hard Times (1975) South.W.A.T. (1975) Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976) Rolling Thunder (1977) The Ninth Configuration (1978) The Warriors (1979) Private Benjamin (1980) The Comeback Kid (1980) Xanadu (1980) Simon & Simon (1981) Tattoo (1981) Looker (1981) Jekyll and Hyde. Together Again (1982) Mr.
Mom (1983) V: The Final Battle (1984) Mischief (1985) Stick (1985) Night of the Creeps (1986) The Exorcist III (1990).